Newton's law of motion
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- noun
- /ˈnjuːtənz lɔː ʌv ˈmoʊʃən/
- Specialized
:
ley de movimiento de Newton
- But armed with Newton's laws of motion, they could describe the relations among force, mass, and acceleration under all conditions.
- describes Newton's laws of motion
Examples
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In physics class, we studied Newton's laws of motion, which describe how forces affect motion.
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Look at Newton's laws of motion.
Fiction book (1996) -
* Apply the concepts of Newton's laws of motion in design.
Academic text (2009) -
As is true for many physical laws, Newton's laws of motion are plain and simple.
Academic text (2004) -
Newton's laws of motion work perfectly to analyze and predict what are called linear systems, where one unit of energy, for example, makes a ball roll at one unit of speed, while twice as much energy produces twice the velocity.
Academic text (1994) -
Such predictions are made by taking the information available at one time and using the apparatus developed out of Newton's laws of motion to forecast a system's behavior indefinitely into the future.
Academic text (1994) -
In contrast, Lagrangian modeling of particle phase preserves the discrete nature where each particle is modeled by equations of Newton's law of motion.
Academic text (2018) -
It seems you are arguing that if I decide between two alternate options to do any deliberate act, that this by definition violates Newton's laws of motion, provided only that the first option does not violate the law of conservation of momentum.
Blog text (25) -
Students learn how Newton's laws of motion explain how objects move on Earth.
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Isaac Newton's laws of motion are essential for understanding the principles of classical mechanics.
Synonyms
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A rule that shows how pushes and pulls change how things move, for example by starting or stopping
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Three basic rules that explain how pushes and pulls change the motion of objects
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Newton's' attributes authorship to Isaac Newton, 'law' denotes a general scientific principle, and 'motion' means movement, so the combined meaning is clearly 'a scientific law about motion formulated by Newton.' This possessive noun–noun structure is cross-linguistically common and a B1 learner who knows the constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Newton's law of motion comes from the scientist Sir Isaac Newton, and one famous story says he watched an apple fall and began to ask why things move. He then wrote three simple rules about 'motion', meaning how things move, so the phrase now means those basic rules scientists use to explain movement.